
“The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.”
The Lady of Moge (p. 183)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)
“The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.”
As quoted in Saudi Arabia using anti-terror laws to detain and torture political dissidents, UN says https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-torture-political-dissidents-anti-terror-laws-un-mohammad-bin-salman-a8388226.html (8 June 2018), The Independent.
“It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.”
“Wars do not make heroes of everyone.”
Source: Briar Rose (1992), Chapter 25 (p. 146)
As quoted in Selected Speeches and Writings (1980) edited by Mikhail Andreevich Suslov
Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Four, Screw U or Hate My Professors, p. 131
I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998)
Context: What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference is there aren't many job interviews where there's a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it. "Well, Bill, the boss thinks you're the right man for the job; why don't you strip down and meet some of the people you'll be working with?"
“Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.”
Basic Education (1951) p. 89
Posthumous publications (1950s and later)
Context: Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.